Career Magazine

Issue for October 29, 2004

"The National Academy of Sciences has recognized the potential of collaboratories and sponsored initiatives to show how technology can transcend geography and bring scientists in remote locations closer together."

Now in its second year, a 9-month postgraduate course in the mathematical sciences recruits promising science, math, and engineering students from various African countries and lecturers from around the world.

I still feel that I am very much in touch with science, only without the burden of having to do bench work 60-hours-plus a week," says Daniel Begin, a senior patent examiner at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office.